From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14147 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2002 16:17:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 14040 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2002 16:16:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO numa6.igpm.rwth-aachen.de) (134.130.161.59) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 20 Dec 2002 16:16:57 -0000 Received: from igpm.rwth-aachen.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa6.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA65489; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:13:46 +0100 (CST) Message-Id: <200212201713.SAA65489@numa6.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:51:00 -0000 From: Volker Reichelt Subject: Re: A testcase library To: bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu cc: ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr, jakub@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, janis187@us.ibm.com, ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg01266.txt.bz2 On 20 Dec, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Eric Botcazou wrote: > >> > But that doesn't keep us from doing something similar in a different >> > location. I had some discussion over the topic in private mail with >> > Wolfgang and we decided to wait for Bugzilla before setting up something >> > new. But maybe there are better suggestions? >> >> Why not a special directory in the testsuite that is not tested by the >> toplevel 'make check' but by a magic-like command invoked only by >> those-who-know ? It would not be included in the official tarballs. > > That was my original thought. It would allow us to get the presently > smallest testcase to check for something, and if we can further reduce it, > we could check in the new testcase as well. It would also allow potentail > bug fixers simpler access to the testcases. > > On the other hand, the list of people with CVS write privileges would have > to be expanded. We'd probably also want a looser check-in policy for the problem reports. Regards, Volker